Example sentences of "[be] that [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course it could be that when I said ‘ English expression ’ I meant expression in the English language . |
| 2 | The conclusion seems to be that if I recognize that I have once wrongly claimed to know that p , then I can not ever claim to know that p unless I can show a relevant difference between the two cases . |
| 3 | The point is that whether I believe it or not , and whether I convince my friends that I 'm right or not , does not alter the fact that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer . |
| 4 | ‘ What you 're saying is that unless I postpone my return to England Grantham and Marsh do n't stand an iceberg 's chance in hell of getting your account ? ’ she asked baldly . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 6 | All I know is that when I went out this morning I found the poor little thing , run over . |
| 7 | ‘ All I know is that when I reached the house Barak was dead . |
| 8 | The problem is that when I try to play games under Windows , such as the Winchess program on November 's Mega Disk , I can only see half of the screen . |
| 9 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 10 | The point is that when I go The best thing is wedding fairs where you are seen and talk to people , but again that is a lot of effort depends very much |
| 11 | So the procedure is that when I return his folded newspaper , I place the packages in his palm . |
| 12 | ‘ All I know is that when I entered the house someone coshed me . |
| 13 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 14 | The astonishing thing is that when I do , one sees a new society instantly emerging . |
| 15 | Indeed one of my personal invariable rules is that when I have mentally decided that something can not be done , for what appears to be a very good reason , I test that apparent constraint , hopefully to destruction . |
| 16 | Right just one last thing that we need to think about is that as I said with the with the learning styles , there 's no right or wrong |
| 17 | By the looks of it it is that as I say a screw 's keeping that thing on . |
| 18 | The theory is that if I stay among the faceless long enough , I become faceless myself . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think the only lasting effect it 's had on me is that if I get married , it 's got to be forever . |
| 20 | The fact is that if I had n't taken part in the BBC television previews of the big event I would probably be riding my old friend Bonanza Boy . |
| 21 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 22 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 23 | Yeah but you see the thing is that if I come and meet you by the time you no point . |
| 24 | ‘ The saddest reason of all for agreeing to his proposal , ’ she said , ‘ is that if I do n't , I 'm afraid he 'll go mad . |
| 25 | What I 'm saying is that if I do , I have to go on the supposition that I 'm expected . |
| 26 | something I 've realized recently is that because I 've sort of , in a sense the C S M T side of things that I , because that 's a big area for me , I tend to think county wide about everything |
| 27 | But what was interesting was that after I began modding my gear , a lot of big-name guitar players — Brian May , for instance — if they saw our show , would come up afterwards and say , ‘ What is that you 're using ? |
| 28 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 29 | Promotion to Vice-Questore seemed certain and the general feeling was that if I played my cards right I would make Questore in the end . |
| 30 | She had kept silent because ‘ my understanding was that if I told anyone I would die . |